Is U.S. Strategy against the Islamic State in Afghanistan Working?
The United States has been confronting evolving threats from the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP). The latest April 2018 report by the Special Inspector General of […]
Neha Dwivedi
Neha Dwivedi is a Postgraduate Research Scholar at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations at Manipal University, India. Her research interests include Afghanistan, emerging geopolitics of the Middle East, refugee crises, Islam and identity politics, and regional aspects of human rights. She is currently pursuing an internship at the Centre for Studies in International Relations and Development (CSIRD). Formerly, she worked as a journalist at the online news platform, Saddahaq.
Articles by Neha Dwivedi
Understanding ISKP’s Resilience in Afghanistan
Over the last four years, the Islamic State (IS), though a late entry in the already crowded jihadi battlefield of Afghanistan, has managed to spread […]
The Elusive Gains of Afghanistan’s Mining Sector
Landlocked Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, is counter-intuitively home to an estimated one trillion dollars in untapped, rare-earth minerals. If properly […]
Military Victory or Reconciliation? Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan
Efforts to negotiate with the Taliban have evolved since 2003 when talks with Taliban moderates were first proposed. Fourteen years later, U.S. President Donald Trump […]
اندرونی خلفشار کے شکار طالبان سے بات چیت؛ مگر کیسے؟
گزشتہ دو دہائیوں میں طالبان کے ارتقاء سے یہ بات ثابت ہوتی ہے کہ وہ افغانستان میں اپنا اثرورسوخ بڑھا رہے ہیں اور عسکری حکمتِ […]
Negotiating with a Fractured Taliban
The evolution of the Taliban over the last two decades underscores the group’s continued influence and its enhanced confidence in pursuing military action in Afghanistan. […]